Providence Journal Company and Gerald M. Carbone v. United States Department of the Army

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reasonable to infer that source expected confidentiality where source’s allegations led to court martial
• “segregable factual portions of [] document might still be subject to compelled disclosure”
• Army’s prosecutorial discretion is “no less an agency function than the formulation or promulgation of agency disciplinary policy”
• “The higher the rank of the public official alleged to have engaged in misconduct, the greater the legitimate public interest in disclosure is likely to be.”
• Inspector General Reports that were “essential to the consultative process within the agency” were deliberative
• Inspector General Reports that were “essential to the consultative process within the agency” were deliberative

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).